Challenge # 2 is an Origami Crane Garland. Sounds so simple, doesn't it? How hard could folding paper be? I'll tell you. It made my brain hurt. But I am getting ahead of myself. Remember this from Scissor Variations ? image via Scissor Variations I have always wanted to try origami, and this little project of mine was the perfect excuse. Unlike last week's tea cup arrangement , this time I didn't wait until Sunday. Oh no. This time, I went to Pearl (a local discount art store) on Saturday... Read Full Story
Yesterday I returned from my trip to Japan and wow, what an amazing experience the whole trip was. And i have so much stuff I am going to be showing you and writing about. I purchased a sword which is being shipped to me and I visited some of the famous medieval castles of Japan. I also went to a couple of Origami museums and visited a world famous bonsai village.
There is so much stuff that is really amazing about Japan and I will be developing a lot of it into projects and articles... Read Full Story
The bird base is essential for the most origami dragon models out there, since it is the most common starting pattern. It is important to know how to fold this base by heart, without any instructions, because much instructions on how to origami generally start with “begin with bird base”. This is exactly why I’ve made this little tutorial. When folded, it looks like this:
Bird Base
So, let’s begin. Or, as they say in Japan, hajimemashou ne.
To begin all we need is a square sheet of... Read Full Story
This is a first post in a series of posts, which would describe the basics of origami. Many origami models use a set of very common patterns, and their variations, and I think it is very important that you would be familiar with some of the most popular and simple ones. This one is called a Bird Base, and it is the most common pattern I can think of. Most of the origami instructions begin with the words "start from a bird base" or something like that. And origami dragons are not an exception... Read Full Story
The Fish Base
The next post I planned to be another simple origami dragon tutorial. However, since this dragon begins from an origami pattern other than bird base, I decided first to make a tutorial about making this pattern, the fish base . It is one of the basic origami start patterns, so it is useful to remember it. Don’t worry newbies, there is nothing complex here
We will start with a simple square and a diagonal fold.
The second diagonal fold.
Pull and fold the left and... Read Full Story
Welcome! I will collect here all the information I can find about folding origami dragons and even more!
Just for starters, folded origami models could be simple as this guy over here:
A simple origami dragon
or as complex as this one:
Eastern dragon - very complex origami dragon with scales
Of course, the latter is very complex and requires lots of experience, skill, time and special origami paper to fold. But don’t worry, if you are really into origami dragons and practice a... Read Full Story
In earlier origami dragon diagram post I released the first version of my first diagram. I created it using Inkscape and Photoshop, though I’m absolutely sure I could do it with Gimp instead of Photoshop, just to emphasize the option of using open source software to create diagrams.
My goal was to make a tiny diagram of origami dragon which fits in an image of width and height of only 512 pixels. Of course, I picked a very simple dragon for that purpose. The first version was very far from... Read Full Story
Origami Dragon blog's goal is to become a comprehensive resource about origami and origami dragon in particular. Welcome! I will collect here all the information I can find about folding origami dragons and even more! Folded origami models could be simple as this guy over here: or as complex as this guy: For complete beginners in origami I will suggest to start from the most basic models like the crane. Here is a video tutorial on how to make one: Hint: with a couple of basic adjustments you... Read Full Story
If you enjoy learning how to make traditional origami, then you will definately like the idea of making origami with your t-shirts. Well, not exactly t-shirt origami as in a crane or something, but t-shirt origami as in an easy way to fold your t-shirt using origami techniques. This japanese t-shirt folding technique is truly so much faster and better than the traditional way to fold a t-shirt. Learning how to fold a t-shirt, origami style, really isn’t hard at all; and when you master the... Read Full Story
After countless hours of hard work I hereby present my first diagram! I made it using Inkscape for vectoring and Photoshop for everything else. I didn’t actually expect that diagramming even the simplest models is so slow(and dull). Taking some pictures while folding is much, much faster, and require almost no specific post-processing. I have a very simple action set in Photoshop which I use to batch process all of the images, rarely tweaking some of them after.
Since this is my very... Read Full Story
